Long Imago Poems

"The Silkworm’s Birthday"





Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast 
Drops one feather for a quill, a song hidden in a laugh, no bitter pill
magic never rests, like a crystal...

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It doesn’t matter if a droplet falling into a pond is early morning dew born from a petal, rain drop gathered from the misty air on one of those gloomy day’s afternoon or simply a...

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Dreaming of leaving the Beehive


Life in the hive was a lot of fun,
For all the little bees when they were young;
But as Humble passed the Pupa stage,
He was told he had to act his age.	
It...

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Sometimes in Virginia when the scorching madness of xenophobia conspires 
with a fragile, violent countenance, I fall to the darkest, bitter poison.
And in that carnage, a nation learns of impending destruction.
But the sounds of heaven...

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A milling crowd (aren't they all),
I call my name
then try my real name
then a made-up name.

The crowd separates reluctantly,

A man with an ever changing face steps forward.
I intently recognize myself,
a self of many ages, some...

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The picture was precious.
The infantilism made one breathless.
The pupa indolence was exquisite in form.
I watched those transmogrifications transform.
Diamonds in the ruff would bring the monarch prosperity.
The rarities of their beauty confound.
The eyes behold profoundly.

Their wings...

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PLEA BARGAIN

If justice can be carted away on a platter of gold
And repaid with a moribund emerald,
Then let Law swallow its loquacious pride—
Let the rays of the sun drop its shines
Let the glitters of the...

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A fallow season a time of trivial hungers
that gnawed like a hypocrites prayer.
It was a Wednesday, or one of those days,
with sorrow sewn into it like a prison blanket.

He had been unlocked like a gull's...

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A fallow season a time of trivial hungers
that gnawed like a hypocrites prayer.
It was a Wednesday, or one of those days
with sorrow sewn into it like a prison blanket.

He had been unlocked like a gulls...

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Clawed eyes bleeding the red acid of tears
Anguished hearts with piper's music in their ears
Pleasures throves of greed and selfishness
Indicts our vision of the citadel's shining
Towards a better promise of togetherness.
Anxieties mounts against Babel's towers...

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An Image attaches itself
to something you once touched or smelled
sends waves echoing inward.

You forgot about it
yet now it weaves itself around a memory
that you had not named –

a singular erotic weaving
that brings its own enticing...

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THE BEGANNING SEEMED FUZZY
THE WORDS WERE DIRECTED AT
 ACHHEIVING SOMETHING AGAINST THE
WISHES OF THOSE WHO OPPOSSED IT'S
CREATION.
CLEAR AND DIRECT TO THE PIONT IN SOME AREA'S
AND LESSER FOCUSED ON BEING SIMPLE AND
PRECISE.
IT LACKS FOCUS: AND REFUSES...

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The cycle starts
An egg is laid
In the weeks to come
See what nature's made
 
Their larva now
Caterpillars to you and me
See them feast
On bush and tree
 
To Chrysalis stage
Under a leaf they fit
If we sit and...

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the ride of our lives was,
on our way to an amusment park,

out in the wooded area, we saw exotic birds pass the vehicle,
multi-colored flowers sprouting on the curb, insects in their imago,

just pure excitement. As...

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A fallow season, a time of trivial hungers.
He unlocked himself like a gulls beak
his cry screeched out from decades of dust.

He spoke:

My ghost is in your body Beloved,
no one sees our earth;
the sunset and the...

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Eight decenniums ago
A woman sang near a riverbank
A wife's longing for a husband in imago
A soldier far away bearing no ankh.

Katyusha was her name
A well-loved dame
Left by a husband in war
Defending his country in tar.

She...

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If leaden skies above you, responsive
As brass, are mocking your anguish’d heart cries,
Repulsing all resolution efforts;
Your angels holiday, while Father God 
Seems distracted -- higher priorities
Eclipsing yours – Would this be the reason
You sit stranded...

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